Banvard's Folly: Tales Of Reknowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity And Rotten Luck by Paul Collins

Banvard's Folly: Tales Of Reknowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity And Rotten Luck

Paul Collins

286 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction biography essays history funny reflective slow-paced
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History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins. But what about the others with similarly revolutionary ideas, but who plummeted into oblivion? Here are the extraordinary, and inspirational, lives of thirteen losers who achieved gr...

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